Creating 600 High-Tech Jobs
RICHMOND, Va. — (October, 15 2025) — Global biopharmaceutical leader AstraZeneca has announced a $4.5 billion investment to establish two new manufacturing facilities in Albemarle County, Virginia—marking the company’s largest single manufacturing investment in history. The project is expected to create 600 high-paying jobs and generate an additional 3,000 indirect jobs, strengthening the Commonwealth’s life sciences and advanced manufacturing sectors.
The new facilities will include a drug substance manufacturing site focused on chronic diseases and an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) facility supporting AstraZeneca’s oncology pipeline. Together, they will expand U.S. production capacity for therapies targeting cancer, obesity, heart disease, and other chronic conditions…